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More Tropes Mighty Whitey Four-Temperament Ensemble Throwing Your Sword Always Works Deconstruction Gratuitous English Amoral Attorney Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Real Life Science Fiction Films Exact Words Suspiciously Specific Denial No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Expy Self-Deprecation Fun with Acronyms Spiteful Spit Big Bad Plucky Comic Relief La Résistance Intergenerational Friendship Translation Convention Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other The Stinger Body Horror Big "NO!" Noodle Incident Genre Shift Extremely Short Timespan British Films Grey and Gray Morality Only One Name Villainous Breakdown All Girls Want Bad Boys Disappeared Dad The Cavalry Children Are Innocent Artistic License – Law Room Full of Crazy For Want of a Nail Defiant to the End One-Word Title Kubrick Stare I Need a Freaking Drink Scary Black Man The '90s Victoria's Secret Compartment Video Credits Dogged Nice Guy Big Applesauce Curb-Stomp Battle Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Drowning My Sorrows The Lost Lenore French Films Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Dirty Cop Dull Surprise Honor Before Reason Psychological Thriller Cowboy Cop Apocalypse How Asshole Victim Our Vampires Are Different Offscreen Moment of Awesome The Atoner Papa Wolf Light Is Not Good Scare Chord Broken Aesop Action Prologue Dramedy Pet the Dog Mercy Kill Chewing the Scenery Department of Redundancy Department The Ace Rule of Funny Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Bad Boss Covers Always Lie Logo Joke Cruel and Unusual Death The Hero Dies Manchild Too Dumb to Live You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Auto Erotica Kill 'em All Everyone Has Standards Superhero Ambiguous Disorder Adaptation Expansion Determinator Jerk Jock Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Evil Plan Death Glare Arranged Marriage Cassandra Truth Enemy Mine Hypocritical Humor Henpecked Husband Improbable Weapon User Ambiguously Gay Leitmotif Market-Based Title Hollywood Law Non-Indicative Name The Brute Death Seeker Crazy Jealous Guy No OSHA Compliance Creepy Child Made of Iron Red Eyes, Take Warning Politically Incorrect Villain The Reveal Adaptational Villainy Wrong Genre Savvy Ax-Crazy Would Hit a Girl Humiliation Conga Nice Guy Calling the Old Man Out The Big Guy Artistic License – Physics Bond One-Liner Setting Update Artistic License – Geography Suspiciously Similar Substitute Double-Meaning Title Black Best Friend Peek-a-Boo Corpse Names to Run Away from Really Fast Large Ham Hero of Another Story My Greatest Failure Black Dude Dies First Ghost Fiction Pre-Mortem One-Liner Really Gets Around Gone Horribly Right Captain Obvious Every Car Is a Pinto Take That! Sports Stories Military and Warfare Films Corrupt Corporate Executive The Smurfette Principle Pyrrhic Victory Documentary Villain Protagonist Darkest Hour Pimped-Out Dress The Alcoholic Brother–Sister Incest All for Nothing Air-Vent Passageway Freudian Excuse Dumb Blonde Time Skip Drives Like Crazy Men Are the Expendable Gender Catapult Nightmare Domestic Abuse What the Hell, Hero? Slap-Slap-Kiss Mr. Exposition Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Anti-Villain Mystery and Detective Films Ambiguous Ending Anguished Declaration of Love It's Personal "Shaggy Dog" Story Artistic License – Biology Last-Name Basis Improvised Weapon Needs Wiki Magic Love Totally Radical Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Karma Houdini Laughing Mad Stuff Blowing Up As Long as It Sounds Foreign Match Cut Badass Grandpa My God, What Have I Done? Insane Troll Logic Driven to Suicide Nice Hat Black Comedy Rape Earn Your Happy Ending Word of God Only Known by Their Nickname Failed a Spot Check Chekhov's Gun Celebrity Paradox Cat Fight Award-Bait Song Japanese Films Reality Has No Subtitles Guile Hero Eldritch Abomination Leave the Camera Running Brainless Beauty The Quiet One 20 Minutes into the Future Arc Words Based on a True Story Beware the Nice Ones Action Survivor Sci-Fi Horror Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Fat Bastard Ms. Fanservice Artistic License – Gun Safety Daddy's Girl Red Shirt Left the Background Music On Never Found the Body Book-Ends Red Herring Stock Footage Does This Remind You of Anything? Handicapped Badass Animal Motifs Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Drugs Are Bad Toplessness from the Back Reality Is Unrealistic Put on a Bus Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Jitter Cam Call-Back Fan Disservice The Dragon Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Big Brother Instinct The End... Or Is It? Monumental Damage From Bad to Worse Pretty Little Headshots Cool Shades Fire-Forged Friends Pretty in Mink Karmic Death Soundtrack Dissonance Dressing as the Enemy Slashed Throat Love at First Sight Aluminum Christmas Trees All There in the Script The Alleged Car Dirty Coward Meaningful Echo Manly Tears Historical In-Joke Coming-of-Age Story Redshirt Army Shower Scene Retirony Getting Crap Past the Radar Bland-Name Product Overly Long Gag Made of Explodium The Ghost Vitriolic Best Buds The Chessmaster Crazy-Prepared Dutch Angle Shout-Out Eiffel Tower Effect Scenery Porn Crapsack World He Knows Too Much Bavarian Fire Drill Bilingual Bonus Card-Carrying Villain Annoying Younger Sibling Villain Opening Scene Better to Die than Be Killed Action Genre Hell Is That Noise Antagonist Title The Starscream Bond Villain Stupidity Cat Scare Expository Hairstyle Change Funny Foreigner Not So Different Eagleland Downer Ending '80s Hair Hooker with a Heart of Gold Adaptational Attractiveness Spell My Name with an "S" After the End Unusually Uninteresting Sight Running Gag Romantic False Lead The Mole What Happened to the Mouse? Cool Guns The Load Dramatic Gun Cock Daylight Horror Epic Movie Bottomless Magazines Central Theme Framing Device Sole Survivor Fantastic Racism Mama Bear Training Montage "The Reason You Suck" Speech Biopic The Dreaded Meaningful Background Event Protagonist Title Cool Old Lady Parental Substitute Faux Affably Evil Unspoken Plan Guarantee Depraved Bisexual Bullying a Dragon The Dog Bites Back Together in Death Small Name, Big Ego Stealth Hi/Bye Heroes Want Redheads Tagline Spanner in the Works Heterosexual Life-Partners Mythology Gag Hair-Trigger Temper Foil Artistic License – History Sanity Slippage Parental Incest O.O.C. Is Serious Business Jerkass Has a Point Get Out! Nothing Is Scarier Rousing Speech And the Adventure Continues Reckless Gun Usage Irony Shirtless Scene Casting Gag Deliberately Monochrome Bowdlerise Shell-Shocked Veteran Australian Movies Danny Peary Cult Movies List Neck Snap I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Psycho for Hire Tranquil Fury Actor Allusion Male Frontal Nudity Betty and Veronica Overprotective Dad Whole Plot Reference Redemption Equals Death The Sociopath Obstructive Bureaucrat Beauty Is Never Tarnished All Men Are Perverts Once More, with Clarity! Break the Haughty Idiot Ball Anachronism Stew Older Than They Look You Have Failed Me Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Token Minority Call-Forward Action Girl Adorkable Laser-Guided Karma Car Fu Awesome, but Impractical Product Placement Dark and Troubled Past Genre Throwback Blood Knight Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Line-of-Sight Name No Ending Took a Level in Jerkass Dirty Old Man Retired Badass Accidental Murder Adaptation Name Change German Films Affectionate Parody Cool Old Guy Half the Man He Used to Be Green-Eyed Monster Flashback Ungrateful Bastard Big Bad Duumvirate Police Brutality Arch-Enemy Adaptation Dye-Job Precision F-Strike Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Dark Is Not Evil Fainting Corpsing MacGuffin Break the Cutie Evil Is Hammy Never My Fault Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor timeperiod No Antagonist Belligerent Sexual Tension The Chick The Vamp Obfuscating Stupidity Badass in a Nice Suit Never Trust a Trailer Obviously Evil Storming the Castle Darker and Edgier Age Lift The Musical B-Movie Creative Closing Credits I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Chekhov's Skill Grievous Bottley Harm Distracted by the Sexy Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold War Is Hell Stylistic Suck Paper-Thin Disguise Ascended Extra Gorn Blood from the Mouth Man on Fire There Is No Kill Like Overkill Conspicuous CG Killed Mid-Sentence Batman Gambit Ominous Latin Chanting Martial Arts Movie The X of Y Despair Event Horizon Hong Kong Films Hoist by His Own Petard Country Matters May–December Romance Hypocrite Big-Bad Ensemble Missing Mom Horror Comedy Dual Wielding Soft Glass Kick the Dog Curse Cut Short Off with His Head! Visual Pun Dark Action Girl Crucified Hero Shot Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Slasher Movie Combat Pragmatist Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Mad Scientist Gold Digger Badass Boast Rated M for Manly Bar Brawl Brutal Honesty Index of Film Westerns Wham Shot Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Death by Irony The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Establishing Character Moment Say My Name Jump Scare Yandere Fate Worse than Death Determinator aka: The Determinator Heel Realization Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Slasher Smile The Film of the Book Fake Shemp Narrator Anachronic Order Cluster F-Bomb Bait-and-Switch Rich Bitch Maybe Ever After Mundane Made Awesome Continuity Nod The Ditz Playing Gertrude The Power of Love In Name Only Evil Brit Almost Kiss Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Recycled IN SPACE! Eye Scream Bolivian Army Ending Serial Killer Cain and Abel Christmas Movies Index Femme Fatale Fourth Date Marriage Not So Stoic No-Sell The Stoic Worthy Opponent Scenery Gorn Dramatic Irony You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Does Not Like Shoes Would Hurt a Child Dwindling Party Advertised Extra Hate Sink Anyone Can Die Vomit Indiscretion Shot Extreme Doormat The Faceless Gender Flip Pragmatic Adaptation Vampire Fiction Mooks Historical Hero Upgrade Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Offscreen Teleportation Properly Paranoid Film Noir Naked People Are Funny Show Within a Show Roger Ebert: Great Movies List The '50s Spiritual Successor Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Sadistic Choice I'm a Humanitarian Bloodier and Gorier Fantasy Films Adaptational Badass Broken Bird The Hero Didn't Think This Through A God Am I Random Events Plot Gilligan Cut Straight Gay Bloody Hilarious Took a Level in Badass Roaring Rampage of Revenge Police are Useless Here We Go Again! Even Evil Has Loved Ones Make It Look Like an Accident The Great Depression BFG The Oner Genre Savvy The Lancer Fatal Flaw Death of a Child Race Lift Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Unresolved Sexual Tension Re-Cut Beard of Evil The '60s Taking the Bullet Thriller Villain Song Only Sane Man Manic Pixie Dream Girl Destination Defenestration Ship Tease Chiaroscuro Red Oni, Blue Oni I Have Your Wife Evil-Detecting Dog Black and Gray Morality Blackmail Black Comedy Serious Business Evil vs. Evil Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Rape as Drama Pay Evil unto Evil Stealth Pun Bittersweet Ending Lock and Load Montage Catch-Phrase Have a Gay Old Time Adaptational Heroism Implacable Man Only a Flesh Wound Becoming the Mask The Place Cold-Blooded Torture Kick the Son of a Bitch Credits Gag Skewed Priorities Male Gaze Film Series Early Installment Weirdness Abusive Parents Lampshade Hanging Outrun the Fireball Bare Your Midriff Not Using the "Z" Word In Medias Res Closed Circle Trailers Always Spoil Author Appeal Easily Forgiven All Just a Dream Let's Get Dangerous! Disproportionate Retribution Title Drop Brick Joke Disney Villain Death Canadian Movies Accidental Misnaming N-Word Privileges Badass Normal Smug Snake Villain Ball Leaning on the Fourth Wall Those Two Guys A Minor Kidroduction Zombie Stories How We Got Here Same Language Dub Anti-Hero Adaptation Distillation He Who Fights Monsters Taking You with Me The Bad Guy Wins Knife Nut In the Back Adults Are Useless Fiery Redhead Rule of Cool A Date with Rosie Palms Immune to Bullets Married to the Job Evil Is Petty Twist Ending A Father to His Men Homage Bury Your Gays Sequel Escalation As Himself The Stoner Loads and Loads of Characters Impaled with Extreme Prejudice One-Man Army The Smart Guy Psychopathic Manchild Sexy Discretion Shot Tempting Fate Mexican Standoff Vomit Discretion Shot Death by Sex Historical Villain Upgrade Revenge Novelization Moment Killer Five-Man Band Dark Reprise Butt-Monkey Those Wacky Nazis Drill Sergeant Nasty Super Strength Instant Death Bullet Fanservice My Beloved Smother As You Know Meaningful Name Facial Horror Film Noir Index Captain Ersatz Stalker with a Crush Author Avatar Improbable Aiming Skills Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Chekhov's Gunman Bloodless Carnage Woman Scorned Shipper on Deck An Aesop Those Two Bad Guys Fish out of Water It's All About Me It Will Never Catch On A.I. Is a Crapshoot Heroic Sacrifice Cloudcuckoolander Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Bad "Bad Acting" An Axe to Grind The '80s Sealed Evil in a Can And I Must Scream An Arm and a Leg And Starring Suddenly SHOUTING! She Cleans Up Nicely Your Head A-Splode Happily Married Evil Laugh The Casanova Deadpan Snarker Authority Equals Asskicking Bi the Way She's Got Legs No Name Given Woman in White Shut Up, Hannibal! Breaking the Fourth Wall Intrepid Reporter Mind Screw Shown Their Work Evil Counterpart Guns Akimbo Death by Adaptation Cool Car Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Empathic Environment World of Ham Badass Bookworm Groin Attack Ironic Echo Damsel in Distress Informed Ability Berserk Button Insult Backfire Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Foregone Conclusion Jerkass Even Evil Has Standards Mugging the Monster Star-Crossed Lovers The Voiceless Red Right Hand Fanservice Extra Not Quite Dead Due to the Dead Sinister Minister Artistic License – Military Fingore Hidden Depths Alliterative Name Morality Pet All There in the Manual Kill It with Fire The Bully Neck Lift Dies Wide Open Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Manipulative Bastard Tap on the Head Ripped from the Headlines Be Careful What You Wish For Punny Name Bald of Evil Beta Couple Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Dying Moment of Awesome Our Zombies Are Different Shoot the Shaggy Dog From Nobody to Nightmare Posthumous Character Mr. Fanservice Very Loosely Based on a True Story Character Development Deal with the Devil Historical-Domain Character Good Is Not Nice True Companions Amusing Injuries "Awesome McCool" Name Actually Pretty Funny Silent Movie Unwitting Instigator of Doom Parental Abandonment Wretched Hive Bound and Gagged Truth in Television This Is Gonna Suck Developing Doomed Characters Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Music Stories Humans Are Bastards I Did What I Had to Do Spared by the Adaptation Demonic Possession Loophole Abuse Imagine Spot The Mafia Camera Abuse Attempted Rape Russian Films Greater-Scope Villain Exactly What It Says on the Tin Frame-Up Malevolent Masked Men Freeze-Frame Bonus Undying Loyalty Hero Antagonist Foreshadowing Camp Gay Did Not Get the Girl Rasputinian Death Contrived Coincidence Real Life Writes the Plot Early-Bird Cameo Deliberate Values Dissonance Not Even Bothering with the Accent Face Death with Dignity Wounded Gazelle Gambit Abhorrent Admirer For the Evulz Italian Films Pragmatic Villainy Bring My Brown Pants Race Against the Clock Important Haircut Naïve Newcomer Dropped a Bridge on Him "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Meet Cute More Dakka Disney Death Your Cheating Heart Kids Are Cruel Affably Evil Lighter and Softer Disguised in Drag Flipping the Bird Knight Templar Deus ex Machina Creator Cameo Fatal Family Photo Smoking Is Cool What You Are in the Dark Reality Ensues Sassy Black Woman Punch-Clock Villain Evil Sounds Deep Poor Communication Kills Funny Background Event The '70s Oh, Crap! Sacrificial Lion The Cameo Not What It Looks Like Stepford Smiler Riddle for the Ages Insistent Terminology Jerk with a Heart of Gold Badass Longcoat Well-Intentioned Extremist Hollywood Darkness Big Fancy House Animated Credits Opening Gainax Ending Defrosting Ice Queen Hope Spot Armor-Piercing Question Mistaken for Gay Costume Porn Gory Discretion Shot Rewatch Bonus Big Eater Vacation Films Major Injury Underreaction Works Set in World War II Sir Swears-a-Lot Final Girl Alas, Poor Villain Agony of the Feet Public Domain Feature Films Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Heroic BSoD Comically Missing the Point Animal Title Index Big Damn Heroes Not So Above It All Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Decoy Protagonist Refuge in Audacity One Steve Limit Broken Pedestal Up to Eleven Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Horror Films No Celebrities Were Harmed Babies Ever After Rule of Three Aside Glance Mood Whiplash Take a Third Option Interrupted Suicide Plot Hole Unusual Euphemism Wicked Cultured Only in It for the Money "Well Done, Son!" Guy Epic Fail Parental Neglect Eureka Moment Alpha Bitch Love Triangle Diabolus ex Machina Composite Character Heel–Face Turn Retcon Off-into-the-Distance Ending You Killed My Father Adult Fear Eyepatch of Power Villain with Good Publicity NO INDOOR VOICE The Remake Face–Heel Turn No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Blatant Lies Madness Mantra Television Movie Index Demoted to Extra Romantic Comedy As the Good Book Says... Reasonable Authority Figure The Un-Reveal Wham Line folderlabel Unreliable Narrator Ass Shove Adapted Out It Can Think Boom, Headshot! Double Entendre Silence Is Golden Chase Scene Sequel Hook Faking the Dead Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Friend to All Children Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Canon Foreigner Bunny-Ears Lawyer Back from the Dead Motor Mouth Famous Last Words Rule of Symbolism Dissonant Serenity